Ranger
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Just weird.
A guy who hiked 22 miles one day three days ago.
And now today hiked 18 miles from a different trailhead just because he got turned around.
That's a lot of miles for a road trip.
I checked the visitor log.
The day of the first visit, he'd signed it, Mark Dolan, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Today he'd signed it, Mark Dolan, Fort Collins, Colorado, again.
Same handwriting.
Same pen.
The D's were slightly different in the way he looped them.
Not enough to mean anything.
I don't know why I looked that closely.
I just did.
I radioed in my evening check at 6 o'clock.
I mentioned to dispatch that I'd had the same visitor twice in three days.
The dispatcher, a woman named Carla, who I'd been working with for four seasons, said, "'Huh.
Somebody really likes your peak.'
I laughed.
She laughed.
We signed off."